Convextion - Convextion

futureancient, Sep 05, 2007

This album questions techno, what it should be about and what the future holds for the genre. Questions which perhaps dont have answers, just opinions.

This is not an innovative album, unless you call the fusing of a few subtly different styles "innovation". It is quite easy to copy the styles to some degree of the well known and heralded producers, but you will never recreate the pure artistic integrity that they bring to their music.

What has been produced however is a "good" techno LP, very listenable with some quite excellent tracks. If this was released 5+ years ago people would be calling it a classic. The tracks are executed well, but offer nothing new. So in equal measure to its goodness, we have a limiting factor. Its the sort of album that leaves me concerned by the lack of direction and brings me to question whats new in techno, where is this music heading?

Then again, should techno be about innovation? How many chord progressions and production techniques are left to discover or expand upon. Hasnt techno always been about pushing boundaries, offering a glimpse forwards in time? This ablum does none of this.

Its quite easy to get hung up on this, in some way is a little depressing, but if you can get past this problem then this Convextion LP is really a very good amalgamation of the last 10 years of techno and as such is very enjoyable.

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